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Samantha Hunt Reads Yiyun Li

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Exploring Disdain for Storytelling and the Motif of Entering Someone Else's Mind

The speakers discuss the protagonist's disdain for storytelling, the fear of being known in someone else's mind, and the dangerous scenarios of embodiment, such as pregnancy and sex.

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